Chapter 86 8. Nobunaga Reports Victory and Takes over the Family

Facing the mist, Maeda Toshiie's father, Maeda Toshimasa, fearlessly led more than 400 conscripted peasant soldiers and foot soldiers, who were known as the weakest soldiers in the world, to set off as a preemptive move to lure Shibata Katsuie.

How can I say this team, the ranks are not in order and the morale is low. Although the soldiers don't know that they are just bait and don't need to fight to the death, they can just hit them twice and run away. But Maeda Toshimasa knows that such troops don't need to disguise themselves to lure the enemy.

As for the other troops, to be honest, although they don't look like Maeda's troops who think they are going to die and are ready to run away at any time, even if the samurai try to encourage them, they can only barely look passable. Maybe the only reason they are still in Inohara is that there is rice to eat here, and eating rice at the cost of their lives is probably like this.

Koheita and Aji also got up early, washed up, and first took a bowl of warm water from the kettle and drank it, and walked into Nobunaga's shogunate refreshed.

After opening the curtain, Kobayata casually looked around. Nobunaga's shogunate was empty. Most of the important officials of the Oda family had already surrendered to his younger brother Oda Nobukatsu/Yuki. Only Niwa Nagahide, Hirate brothers and Mori Kanshinari were considered big shots. The remaining two or three kittens, although they would also leave their names in history books, were not good enough at the moment, and they were not even qualified for Kobayata to look at them.

The little man inside the curtain saw Kobayata come in, and then he picked a corner to sit down, and brought two bowls of tea rice. Kobayata asked Aji, who was holding Muramasa, to put down the knife, and handed him a bowl first. Aji took it honestly and said thank you, and drank it in a few seconds, and smacked his lips to recall the taste.

Kobayata shook his head. Aji always looked like a starving ghost reincarnated. It might be that he was starving most of the time in the past ten years. Aji had a character that would accept anything as long as it was food. He would eat whatever was given to him. Although he would not ask for more, he would not miss the opportunity to eat as long as there was one.

As for Kobayata, he drank the tea rice slowly. He was now a person of status and could not be as ignorant as Aji. The others in the curtain had finished drinking long ago. Anyway, Kobayata felt that he was an outsider sitting in the corner and no one would pay attention to him. In the end, the sound of drinking tea rice attracted other people's attention.

"Tan Zhengzhong, is the tea rice so delicious?" Nobunaga supported his thigh with one hand and waved the whip with the other hand, looking a little bored.

Kobayata stopped drinking immediately after hearing this, and turned around and handed the small half bowl of tea rice to Aji. Aji took it and saw that there was still some in it, so he drank it all up without hesitation. After drinking it, he smacked his lips again.

Nobunaga was happy when he saw it, "Quickly bring a bowl of rice porridge to the followers of Tansho." Kobayata hurriedly asked Aji to bow his head: "Why don't you thank Uesusuke for the reward?"

Aji was still stretching his neck to look around, looking at where the young man was serving rice porridge. When he heard what Kobayata said, he wanted to lie down on the ground quickly, but Nobunaga smiled and told him not to do it, it was a pretentious thing to come up so early in the morning.

The other warriors present all covered their faces and laughed softly. Anyway, just treat it as an episode, and everyone will laugh and it will pass soon.

Aji took the rice porridge he had been thinking about, and this time he used chopsticks to pick it up seriously. It turned out that being heartless is good. Everyone was thinking about the battle situation, and Kobayata had a sense of urgency, but Aji was the only one who was focused on rice.

The rest was to wait for the news of Maeda Toshimasa.

After about half an hour, Nobunaga got impatient and stood up, jumped out of the shogunate, stood on the high ground of the fortress and looked into the distance. Seeing that the lord had gone out, the others could not sit any longer, so they all took up their weapons and stood up and went out of the tent, also looking into the distance with their hands on the awning.

Xiao Pingtai was at a disadvantage. He was 1.4 meters tall and had a hunchback. Although his hunchback was much better now because he always stood up and talked, he didn't have to bend over to work, but he was at a disadvantage among a group of 1.5 meters tall warriors. Do you understand what it means to be a chicken standing out among a group of cranes?

Nobunaga seemed to suddenly think of something and turned around. "Hahahahaha, Danzheng, come to my side and look."

Xiao Pingtai thought to himself that you have some humanity, remembering your existence and knowing that I am short. After waiting for another twenty minutes, defeated soldiers fled in groups of three or two from a distance. Everyone knew that Maeda Toshimasa had been defeated, and whether Shibata Katsuie was lured over or not, an ambush should be prepared.

Niwa Nagahide and Mori Kanshinari took the order and went, each with two or three hundred men to ambush the two wings.

Nobunaga shouted, "Ah Inu, bring me father's armor." Maeda Toshiie hurriedly helped Nobunaga put on Oda Nobuhide's armor with several followers, and then tied a bright red cloak.

The flags with feather butterflies and papaya patterns were raised one after another, "Tanzheng, you watch me defeat the enemy here."

"It's an honor!" Kobayata looked at Oda Nobunaga and saw him off.

In the distance, more than a thousand troops with Shibata Ninomaru Karakane's horse flag rolled in, and the Maeda tribe, which was unable to stop the defeat, retreated all the way.

Fortunately, at this time, the troops of Niwa and Mori suddenly attacked Shibata's tribe from left and right. Continuous shouts of surprise attack rang out on the plain, and Shibata's tribe was in a panic. But Shibata Katsuie was a man who quickly stabilized the situation with his strong martial arts, and had the momentum to take the opportunity to defeat both tribes.

Looking at such a brave warrior, Kobayata couldn't help but sigh: "Nobunaga has capable people under him!"

But no matter how brave he was, Nobunaga led dozens of hatamoto soldiers in bright helmets and armor to attack Shibata Katsuie from the front.

Nobunaga's warriors shouted: "Oda Bichu-no-kami is here, why don't you surrender quickly!"

The Oda Nobunaga army on both sides also shouted, and Maeda Toshimasa, who had gathered the defeated soldiers, joined the battle. Countless straws fell on the big camel of Shibata's army.

Suddenly, a Shibata warrior shouted: "Bichu-no-kami, please forgive me." He wailed and surrendered to Nobunaga. With the first example, other foot soldiers shouted "Bichu-no-kami, please forgive me, we are willing to surrender." They turned to Nobunaga's side, and in a blink of an eye, Shibata Katsuie was left with less than a hundred troops around him.

Nobunaga rode his horse in front of him, holding his head high and chest out: "Gonroku, why don't you surrender!"

Shibata Katsuie was deflated, got off the horse, and knelt in front of Oda Nobunaga. "Don't look like a defeated dog, bring your people and go with me to meet my good brother."

The scene that followed was not something that Xiao Pingtai could see. Nobunaga led Shibata Katsuie's troops to attack and kill Hayashi Michigu, then drove the defeated soldiers to defeat Hayashi Michikatsu again. Oda Nobukatsu/Yuki was defeated and fled to Suemori.

Nobunaga completely suppressed the rebellion at home.

With the help of all the big brothers, I have successfully surpassed the book of that scumbag author, so there are five updates today and five updates tomorrow!